... Disaster has struck and the post I had spent a whole day on has vanished because of some incompatibility between Blogger and Microsoft SkyDrive embedding. I will try to recap the contents of that post briefly anyways.
The original gcard style sheet is intended for making a small greeting card that gets folded twice, as shown in my previous post. I would like to modify the style sheet to produce a card that gets folded only once. It will have some content on the outside as well as inside. In addition, I want to add features like background image and other figures to make the cards more appealing.
Going from a double fold to a single fold
That requires that you make the following changes in the file gcard.sty.
1) Double the panel height.
Inserting a Background
In the TeX source file, include this code before the \begin{document}.
Inserting Images
Images can be inserted as follows.
It might be time for me to share a card I have created using the above-mentioned principles.
PDF:: TEX:: STY::
Enjoy
The original gcard style sheet is intended for making a small greeting card that gets folded twice, as shown in my previous post. I would like to modify the style sheet to produce a card that gets folded only once. It will have some content on the outside as well as inside. In addition, I want to add features like background image and other figures to make the cards more appealing.
Going from a double fold to a single fold
That requires that you make the following changes in the file gcard.sty.
1) Double the panel height.
%\setlength{\panelheight}{(\paperheight-2\gctopmargin-2\gcbottommargin)/2}
\setlength{\panelheight}{(\paperheight-2\gctopmargin-2\gcbottommargin)}
%\begin{textblock*}{\panelwidth}(0pt,\TPVertModule)
\begin{textblock*}{\panelwidth}(0pt,0pt)
.
.
.
%\begin{textblock*}{\panelwidth}(\TPHorizModule,\TPVertModule)
\begin{textblock*}{\panelwidth}(\TPHorizModule,0pt)
\null\newpage
Inserting a Background
In the TeX source file, include this code before the \begin{document}.
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand\BG{
\put(0,0){
\parbox[b][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,keepaspectratio,angle=180]{BG.jpg}
\vfill
}}}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\newcommand\BG1{
\put(0,0){
\parbox[b][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,keepaspectratio,angle=0]{BG.jpg}
\vfill
}}}
\AddToShipoutPicture{\BG}
\AddToShipoutPicture{\BG1}
Inserting Images
Images can be inserted as follows.
\includegraphics[width=5.00in,keepaspectratio,angle=0]{Image.jpg}
It might be time for me to share a card I have created using the above-mentioned principles.
PDF:: TEX:: STY::
Enjoy
Comments
Agreed, on the "I don't really like
the commercial ones."
Enjoy the ware...
I have enjoyed using it to make all sorts of cards. I have made so many thank you notes, happy b-day cards, mother's and father's day cards ...etc to give to friends and family.
Berhin
thanks!
Wendy
both gcard and this website enabled me to prepare a nice wedding card.
To note, the addition of rotating package enables some further flexibility.
I used the first foo box example from the rotating package manual:
Thank you :)
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\documentclass[12 pt,landscape]{article}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage[dvips]{geometry}
\usepackage[showboxes]{gcard}
\usepackage{rotating}
\begin{document}
\newsavebox{\foo}
\savebox{\foo}{\parbox{1in}{\centering
Your message}}%
\newsavebox{\front}
\savebox{\front}{\parbox{1in}{\centering
Your front box message}}%
\begin{frontcover}
\huge
\centering
\begin{turn}{90}\usebox{\front}\end{turn}
\end{frontcover}
\begin{insideright}
\huge
\centering
\begin{turn}{90}\usebox{\foo}\end{turn}
\end{insideright}
\begin{insideleft}
\null\newpage
\end{insideleft}
\end{document}